EP2069162B1 - Quick-recharging energy feeding system for means of transport with electric traction - Google Patents

Quick-recharging energy feeding system for means of transport with electric traction Download PDF

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EP2069162B1
EP2069162B1 EP07805754.4A EP07805754A EP2069162B1 EP 2069162 B1 EP2069162 B1 EP 2069162B1 EP 07805754 A EP07805754 A EP 07805754A EP 2069162 B1 EP2069162 B1 EP 2069162B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60MPOWER SUPPLY LINES, AND DEVICES ALONG RAILS, FOR ELECTRICALLY- PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60M7/00Power lines or rails specially adapted for electrically-propelled vehicles of special types, e.g. suspension tramway, ropeway, underground railway
    • B60M7/003Power lines or rails specially adapted for electrically-propelled vehicles of special types, e.g. suspension tramway, ropeway, underground railway for vehicles using stored power (e.g. charging stations)
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60LPROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L5/00Current collectors for power supply lines of electrically-propelled vehicles
    • B60L5/42Current collectors for power supply lines of electrically-propelled vehicles for collecting current from individual contact pieces connected to the power supply line
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60LPROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L53/00Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
    • B60L53/10Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles characterised by the energy transfer between the charging station and the vehicle
    • B60L53/14Conductive energy transfer
    • B60L53/16Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60LPROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L8/00Electric propulsion with power supply from forces of nature, e.g. sun or wind
    • B60L8/003Converting light into electric energy, e.g. by using photo-voltaic systems
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60LPROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
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    • Y02TCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
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    • Y02T10/60Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect
    • Y02T10/70Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
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  • the present invention refers to a quick-recharging energy feeding system for means of transport, in particular of the collective type, with electric traction.
  • the term "feeding" defines a partial recharge of the batteries that are a piece of equipment of an autonomous electric means of locomotion.
  • the term is used to point out the recharge operation that it is possible to perform, using currently available technologies, when the locomotion means stops in suitably equipped areas (for example, the terminus of urban and extra-urban bus lines).
  • Current arrangements suffer the intrinsic impossibility of traditional accumulators to accept high recharging currents and the need of reducing to a minimum the vehicle stop times, de facto compelling to perform only partial battery recharges.
  • the state of the art of the feeding technology adopted by some urban transport companies on lines served by minibuses (12 places, 10.5 tons), has as characteristic an extension of the daily autonomy of electric vehicles, which anyway require a slow recharge during the night before being able to restart the service.
  • the art further proposed a simpler system for implementing the braking regeneration on vehicles operated by an endothermic motor as disclosed in European Patent Application n. 6018745.7, filed on 7/2006 by the same Applicant.
  • the described system is substantially a smart battery that uses super-capacitors coupled with a power electronics that complement the electrochemical vehicle battery. This coupling allows high energy savings, modulating the effects depending on accelerations.
  • GB-A-2185866 discloses an energy feeding system according to the preamble of Claim 1.
  • EP-A-1228919 discloses the use of super capacitors in energy feeding systems of this type.
  • Object of the present invention is solving the above prior art problems by providing a quick-recharging energy feeding system for means of transport, in particular of the collective type, with electric traction that provides for the use of super-capacitors in place of or together with known accumulators, allowing to substantially decrease the recharge times.
  • Another object of the present invention is providing a quick-recharging energy feeding system that allows improving known art limits dealing with energy accumulation on board the vehicle.
  • the quick-recharging energy feeding system of a transporting vehicle in particular of the type used for the collective transport, according to the present invention can be performed upon every foreseen stop of the vehicle itself by means of a connection that can be performed directly and automatically from the road bed or through another connection that allows transferring the necessary energy under safety conditions, taking into account the unavoidable casual approaching of the vehicle when stopping.
  • the flexibility required by the present invention provides on one hand a connection that can be directly and automatically performed next to the foreseen vehicle stop, and on the other hand the possibility of transferring to the vehicle the necessary energy to travel along the road section separating it from the following recharging point (the following stop) within a time that is compatible with the stop length to allow passengers to go into and out of the vehicle.
  • the system according to the present invention can be divided into two parts: a recharging subsystem as vehicle equipment, and a stationary system adapted to transmit electric energy to such recharging subsystem.
  • the subsystem as vehicle equipment that is substantially an electric means supplied by accumulators 13 and possibly equipped with braking regeneration capability, comprises:
  • the battery of super-capacitors 11 can be placed everywhere on the means of transport or can be distributed in its various spaces. Assuming a dimensioning for collective transport, approximately 300 litres of volume with 400 kg of weight are necessary to obtain the required energy.
  • the connection will be of the serial and parallel type, in order to reach voltages and amperages that are compatible with the switching devices of the conversion and control electronics 12 and 14.
  • the conversion and control electronics 12 and 14 performs the functions of battery recharging, complements the batteries when the electric absorption of the vehicle engine so requires, manages the tap counter-array 9 operation, supervises the quick recharge function of the super-capacitors 11 when the feeding contact is established.
  • the contacts can also establish a data communication for providing the coupling position, namely recognise the contacts foreseen to be at a high potential with respect to ground contacts; moreover, it is possible to transfer vehicle identification and measures of amounts of transferred energy in order to also provide a functional monitoring or an accounting in order to invoice the performance.
  • the tap counter-array 9 is composed of a plate 9a placed under the vehicle flatbed that houses a set of electric conduction contacts, preferably made as spring ferrules 9b and 9c to establish the electric contacts arranged with an array ordering.
  • the tap counter-array 9 will have a typology compatible with the array of the ground station 7 mentioned below, so that the greatest number of parallel contacts are formed under any casual coupling condition.
  • a possible embodiment of such counter-array provides for the presence of a crown 9b of spring contacts aimed to perform the contact with the ground potential, separated as much as to avoid short-circuit phenomena from the spring ferrules 9c placed in the counter-array centre (at least the diameter of the cells 7a of the mat 7 including insulation and described below).
  • the plate 9a is moved in two positions, a retracted position that avoids that the contacts can be damaged when the vehicle circulates, and an extended position or a position pressed on the pavement under the energy transfer phase. At least three linear actuators 9d are needed for performing the extension manoeuvre and the following retraction.
  • a coverage is advisable towards the road side that, in the operating phase, is retracted, as if it were a sliding door or a shutter, or else the cover could remain in position and be crossed by the individual spring ferrules 9b and 9c that project from orifices.
  • the cover will have to be made of insulating or rubbery material.
  • a protection on the current transit is provided on board the means through the fuse 10 placed between counter-array 9 and battery of super-capacitors 11.
  • the stationary system of the system according to the present invention instead is a feeding station connected to the electric mains 3 and composed of an insulating mat 7, that houses plane metal contacts 7a, placed on the road bed, a managing and control electronics 8, safety systems 5 and 6, an energy accumulation capacity both with electro-chemical accumulators 2 and with super-capacitors 4, and possibly at least one photovoltaic cantilever roof 1.
  • the mat 7 houses the plane contacts 7a organised in a honeycomb array; each contact is exposed to the surface and connected to a single lead 7b embedded into the insulating mat 7; all leads converge to a side of the mat 7 to reach the connections in the cabinet of the managing and control electronics 8.
  • the sizes of the mat 7, with respect to the counter-array 9 assembled on the vehicle, are such as to allow the driver a good approximation when approaching the stop, in order to reduce to a minimum the probability of a lack of contact due to a wrong positioning of the vehicle with respect to the mat.
  • the managing and control electronics 8 administrates all operating steps of the system. Since it is not possible to foresee the exact position of the vehicle when stopping, the managing and control electronics equipping every contact 7a is able to connect the element both to the high electric potential polarity and to the ground potential, depending on the coupling that every time is performed between mat 7 and counter-array 9.
  • the first level is intrinsic in the geometry for realising the contact that is electronically managed: once the vehicle stops at a stop, the actuating system makes the counter-array 9 descend towards the road bed, so that the spring ferrules 9b exert pressure onto the mat 7.
  • the managing and control electronics 8 connects to the ground potential the spring ferrules 9b present on the peripheral crown of the counter-array 9, while the spring ferrules 9c included in said peripheral crown are connected to a high potential. This guarantees the physical insulation of a high voltage from the surrounding space.
  • a second intrinsic safety level of the system described by the present invention is represented by voltages and currents determined depending on the time established for performing the energy transfer between vehicle and cantilever roof through the contact between spring ferrules 9b and 9c of the counter-array 9 and contacts 7a placed on the mat 7.
  • the right compromise must minimise the necessary voltage for transferring 5 MJ of energy in a time compatible with the vehicle stopping at the stop, taking into account the maximum current that can be transferred though the number and sizes of available contacts.
  • the necessary power is equal to 500 kW. If a voltage of 1000 V has to be made available, for reasons of safety, the current must be equal to 500 A.
  • the system described by the present invention is preferably equipped with at least two real-time diagnostics systems operating in parallel.
  • the first system operates at individual hardware level for each contact 7a of the mat 7, verifying that, instant by instant, each contact is at the ground potential. If even only one contact is at a high potential, after a delay time has passed that is comparable with the length of the energy transfer procedure, the system takes care of immediately and definitively insulating all contacts through a contact breaker 5.
  • the second system collectively operates at bus level on the contacts 7a of the mat 7, through a logic that continuously verifies the agreement between foreseen status (ground potential or high potential) and actual status. In a negative case, the system takes care of checking the current flow through a current limiter 6, till all contacts are finally insulated.
  • the electro-chemical accumulators and the super-capacitors that are equipment of the feeding station 16 can be placed in a space obtained underground, or in a suitable cabin that houses the managing and control cabinet 8.
  • the photovoltaic cantilever roof 1 is a traditional cantilever roof made of metal, wood or another material whose roof houses at least one photovoltaic panel whose sizes are necessary for charging the accumulators 2 with the necessary energy for recharging the vehicle arriving to a stop.
  • ground super-capacitors as equipment of the cantilever roof, coupled with those on board the vehicle, guarantee quick energy exchange operations between vehicle and cantilever roof.
  • the presence of the photovoltaic panel makes it necessary to provide the cantilever roof with necessary accumulators for stocking the produced energy. Since the cantilever roof is connected to the electric mains 3, under particular conditions depending on topology and operating conditions of the transport line, the produced energy can be entered onto the electric mains.
  • the operation provides that the mains or the photovoltaic panel supply the recharging of accumulators and super-capacitors; the presence of the super-capacitors can reduce to a minimum the cycles and the discharge and recharge depth, in addition to the maximum accumulator current, prolonging their life and increasing the electro-chemical conversion efficiency.
  • a section of round facing the cantilever roofs of stops of public means of travel can be equipped with the rectangular array 7 of ground electric contacts 7b that are normally neutral, namely inactive.
  • contacts of the feeling system could be of the sliding or revolving type, being for example an equipment of routes reserved for the recharging to allow the recharging itself without requiring the vehicle to stop.
  • the subset 8 checking the ground array operation supplies the yards according to a computed and measured topology. Some yards will be connected to the high electric potential polarity and other will keep the ground potential.
  • the necessary time for coupling to transfer the necessary energy is few seconds, after that a control subsystem stops the delivery of the recharging potential and the counter-array of the transport means is free to retract.
  • the driver can wait for the passengers to go into or out of the means of transport and can start again without paying any attention to the feeding system.
  • the feeding system by the cantilever roofs should theoretically provide powers on the order of megawatts to be transferred to vehicles, even if for few seconds. This could represent a limitation as regards the electric connection to the mains 3, but the accumulation or buffer function could be performed again by the stationary super-capacitors 4 provided as equipment of the control subsystem of the ground device.
  • a simple electric connection between the opposed cantilever roofs provides the functionality that sees the descending vehicle providing energy for the rise of the corresponding vehicle running along the opposite direction.
  • the energy feeding system according to the present invention strongly reduces the need of an electro-chemical accumulation of electric energy on board the means of transport, demanding to the territory the function of providing the necessary energy to the means of transport, thereby removing the autonomy problem. It is wholly clear that, under such point of view, the possible applications of the system according to the present invention are extremely numerous. In fact, in addition to allow the electric supply of vehicles for the private or public transport of people, it is well suited for its application to goods-transporting vehicles. As known, above all as regards the foodstuff chain, it is necessary to shorten the distances between production and consumption.
  • the transport of food produced on the field can derive a storage advantage from an autonomous refrigerating vehicle that does not need fuels for operating and keeping at the desired temperature, the ground products that can decay.
  • a refrigerating wagon that, under a logic with everything electrical, also integrates the feeding system with a photovoltaic generation capability:
  • the system can also in this case be energy dimensioned in order to provide for the quick load cooling and its keeping at the desired temperature. If an energy evaluation is performed about the need of a refrigerating wagon, it can be stated that it is necessary to extract approximately 120 MJ of heat per a ton of foodstuffs.
  • a heat pump could electrically consume a fraction of this energy, assuming, remaining conservative, 40 MJ, such dimension being compatible with the already described functionality of the feeding cantilever roofs: obviously, the means of transport can also use suitable feeding areas. Keeping the cold could be ensured by a small photovoltaic roof whose advantage would be to deliver a higher power in case of direct exposure to the sun, namely the most difficult situation.
  • the amount of thermal insulation of the cold container is a specifics which can be easily modulated when designing depending on the provided available energy.
  • the energy feeding system according to the present invention can therefore provide a solution without compromises to the problem of transporting goods, event under medium or long range situations. Should the feeding system be extended, for example, to routes connecting big towns, an electric transport on tires could be assumed, summing the advantages of both systems.

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SI200731350T SI2069162T1 (sl) 2006-08-17 2007-08-01 Hitri sistem polnjenja z energijo za električna transportna sredstva
PL07805754T PL2069162T3 (pl) 2006-08-17 2007-08-01 System zasilania w energię z szybkim doładowaniem dla środków transportu z napędem elektrycznym
CY20131101065T CY1114652T1 (el) 2006-08-17 2013-11-27 Συστημα τροφοδοσιας ενεργειας γρηγορης επαναφορτισης για μεσα μεταφορας με ηλεκτρικη ελξη

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